C. S. Lewis Quotes
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
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Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
